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build too under the v corners of perpendi- 

 cular rocks 5 and this fhews where the 



Swallows 



were takea up, by him, in ^ net, under the ice, and 

 being brought into a warm rponi, the/ flew about. 6thly> 

 "Jacob Kojiulo, a matter fimer'Xian, at Stradauen, made am* 

 davit, that in 1736, he brought up in winter, in a net, 

 from under the ice of the lake at Rajki, a feemrngly dead 

 Swallow, which revived/in half an hour's time, in aAvarm 

 room, and he faw, a Quarter of an hour after, the bird 

 grow weaker, and foo^ after dying, "jtkly, I can reckon 

 myfelf among the eye-witnefies of this paradoxtn of natu- 

 ral hiilory. In the year 1735, being a little boy, I faw 

 feveral Swallows brought in winter by fifheroien, from the 

 river Viftula, to my 'father's houfe, where two of them 

 were brought into a warm room, revived, and flew about. 

 I faw them feveral ti/nes fettling on the warm ftove, (which 

 the Northern nation? have in their rooms) and I recollect 

 well that the fam6 forenoon they died, and I had them, 

 when dead, in my hand. 



In the year 17^4, after the death of my uncle Godefroy 

 Wdf, captain in the Polijh regiment of foot guards ; being 

 myfelf one of his heirs, I adminiftered for my co-heirs. 

 feveral eftates called the Starcfty y of Dirfcbau, in Polijh 

 Prujfia^ which my late uncle farmed under the king. In 

 January the lake of Lybfiau, belonging to thefe eftates, 

 being covered with ice, I ordered the filhermen to fifh 

 therein, and in my prefence feveral Swallows were taken ; 

 which the fiihermen threw in again ; but one I took up 

 myfelf, brought it home, which was five miles from thence, 

 and it revived, but <Hfd about an hour after its reviving. 

 Thefe are fads, att-fted by people of the higheft quality, 

 by foms in public offices, and bv others,. who, tho' of a 

 low rank, however made thefe affidavits upon oath. It is 

 impoflible to fuppofe indiscriminately that they were 

 prompted by views of intereft, ro afTert as a facl, a thing 

 which had no truth in it. It is therefore highly probable, 

 or rather inconteftably true, that Sivallows retire in the Nor- 

 thern countries during winter, into the water, and ftay 

 there in a torpid ilate, till the return of warmth revives 



them 



